Wikimedia sites aren't well integrated, nor are they meant to be. I am talking swarms of sites, many more than wikimedia has or plans to have - separate sites, not language translations. For instance, we are constantly changing what are currently called mediawiki: namespace messages - for us, an integration closer to that of images (where the message would be pulled off of meta if it doesn't exist locally) would be more ideal. Also, pages can be shared or marked as global on meta, in which case they are (again) treated the same. Help: namespace would be global, so the help documents would only have to be written once and maintained on one site; same for user pages, as users are global already (more support for that would be integrated, as well as different preferences on different network sites, and keep the sessions across wikis), and project: pages would be eschewed, as information about each project would be on meta - again, more customizations like this focused on a hub-sattelite architecture. Our main goal is just using perl, however - much of mediawiki is very well done and salvageable! We're just planning on working in something more powerful than... php... ^^/
I am sure mediawiki works for you; I'm just saying it doesn't work for us, thus we're doing it another way. Why blow up at me? Many people prefer Perl over PHP; actually, all the ones I know well do... I have yet (until the other message in this thread ("Is there some rule that says mediawiki must be written in a language which encourages, nay demands!, unmaintainable results?") I have actually never in my coding life heard somebody support php as a viable language to develop in... perhaps I'm just crazy. Whatever. I'm not saying you should change MediaWiki to perl, that'd be lots of largely-useless work for you.
On May 3, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Rob Church wrote:
On 03/05/06, Gregory Szorc gregory.szorc@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/3/06, Elliott F. Cable ecable@avxw.com wrote:
including a lot more support for integration between wikis on a network.
If you are referring to the ability of MediaWiki to host multiple wikis and have more robust support for permissions.
Um...one can't run multiple wikis with MediaWiki?
I KNEW IT! THIS WIKIMEDIA THING IS AN ELABORATE CON! A HOAX! YOU HAVE PULLED THE WOOL OVER ALL OUR EYES, VIBBER! I DEMAND VENGEANCE!
[Please don't stab me.]
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